Teaching to Transgress : Education As the Practice of Freedom

by Hooks; Bell

• ISBN13: 9780415908085
• ISBN10: 0415908086
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135200008
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780415908078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-12
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

In this book, bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, shares her philosophy of the classroom, offering ideas about teaching that fundamentally rethink democratic participation. Hooks advocates the process of teaching students to think critically and raises many concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy, linking them to feminist thought. In the process, these essays face squarely the problems of teachers who do not want to teach, of students who do not want to learn, of racism and sexism in the classroom, and of the gift of freedom that is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Teaching to Transgress

Engaged Pedagogy

A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change

Embracing Change: Teaching in a Multicultural World

Paulo Freire

Theory as Liberatory Practice

Essentialism and Experience

Holding My Sister's Hand: Feminist Solidarity

Feminist Thinking: In the Classroom Right Now

Feminist Scholarship: Black Scholars

Building a Teaching Community: A Dialogue

Language: Teaching New Worlds/ New Words

Confronting Class in the Classroom

Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process

Ecstacy: Teaching and Learning Without Limits

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